Merry-go-round



Auglll, 1931*., l v v5 K. PRNNECKE 1,818,647'

4- MERRY-Go-ROUND I Filed April 19. 1929 2 sheets-sneu 1 [IDD @VLM@IDU/bn r 00%@ A Aug. 11, 1931. K. PRNNECKE MERRY-GO-ROUND 2Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed April 19. 1929 Patented Aug. 1l, 1931 UNITEDs'lxarl-:sA

KARL PRNNECKE, or amanMarianna,4 ann-MANY Application filed April 19,1929, seriai No.

- This invention relates to new and useful mprovements in rotating,amusement Aapparatus for taking passengers.

The new amusement vehicle consists of two superposed merry-go-roundswhich rotate in opposite directions to each other and of which the lowerone is provided with flying machines connected with a stationary tower,which machines areguided along a curved track by means of solid rubberwheels whereas the upper one is arranged as a circular rotatingmerry-g-round the vertical axle of which is mounted in the stationarytower. The circular rotating merry-go-round carries airships on its roofframework to which admission is gained from a platformreached by astaircase inside the tower. l

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated by way of example in theaccompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 shows a front elevation of adouble merry-go-round, partly in section.

Fig. 2 is a partial top plan view of the flying machine merry-go-round.

Fig. 3 shows a front elevation of the double merry-go-round, partly insection.

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the air ship merry go-round.

Both merry-go-rounds are'carried by a stationary tower 1 on which atooth rim 2 is rotatably mounted on ball bearings 3. This rim 2 isdriven by a spur wheel 4, bevel wheels 5 and a belt or chaintransmission 6 from a motor 7 (Fig. 3) or in any other suitable manner.A curve track 9 is mounted on stands 8 arranged concentrically to thetower 1 and closed on the outer side by a wall 10.

The flying machines 11 are each Vsecured to two rods 12 vthe inner endsof which are fixed to pivot bearings 13 of a ring 14 arranged above thetooth rim 9 and rigidly connected therewith. On the outer edge of thecurve track 9 carrying'frames 15 are attached to the rods 12 each framebeing adapted to receive a solid rubber wheel which runs on the curvetrack 9. The component carrying frames 15 of a flying machine areconnected together by tension springs 17 (Fig. 2) whereas the carryingframes 15 of all the ilying machines are connected together by wirelgo-round comprising eight Vflying .machinesl scribed, comprising incombination a sup" -said frames, a ring around said supporting-35e-,416, and in Germany Marcil 14, 1929.

ropes 18 chains or the like, so that the flying machines cannot collidewith each other.-

The carrying towery lis hollow and has lan entrance 1 9 (Fig. r1)y underthe lower merry- 11.- ,From this entrance -19 the' passengers mustv passva pay desk 2O in order tofobtain vaccess to the tower in which stairs21le`ad up to an exit 224 onto. a platform 23'held by the struts 24 onthe tower'l. The roof 25 of the inerry-go-round is joined to a verticalaXle 26 (Fig. 3) which is driven through the bevel gears 27, 28 and beltor chain transmission 29 from a motor 30 in the opposite direction tothe flying machine merry-go-round. Instead of the Abevel wheels 27, 28 atooth rim may be used with a spur wheel meshing therey with similarly tothe flying machine merrygo-round. The five air ships 31, the cars of 1which can be entered from the platform 23,70 are secured to the roofframework of the merry-go-round or to radial arms projecting from theshaft 26 by means of tie-bars or the like. Both merry-go-rounds areindependent from each other when working so that the flying machineVmerry-go-round may be driven without the airship merry-go-round and viceversa. Admission to the flying ma-. chine merry-go-round is gained bytwo stairs'S80 35 past a pay desk on a landing 37 from which extensions38 branch olf on both sides (Fig. 2) so that the flying machines canalso be entered from outside.

By arc-lamps 39 and numerous incandes! cent bulbs tted at the entrancesto the stairways 35, the landing 40, the tower 1, the struts 24, themerry-go-round roof etc. the two merry-go-rounds may be effectivelylighted.

In each flying machine 11 and in each air-u ship 31 an electric motormay be fitted for driving the propellers 41, 42.

I claim:

An amusement vehicle of the type de-l porting tower, a plurality offlying machines in the lower portion of said tower, two supportingframes for each of said flying machines, radial rods connected one toeach of;y

tower adapted to support the inner ends of said rods, a toothed rimfixed to said ring, means for rotating said ring and therefore saidflying machines, a curve track arranged under said frames around saidtower, a solid rubber wheel on each of said frames adapted to run onsaid track, a spring adapted to connect the two frames of each flyingmachine, pliable means adapted to connect and space the one from theother the two frames of one flying machine with those of the precedingand next following flying machine, a roof on the upper end of saidsupporting tower, a plurality of airships suspended from said roofaround said supporting tower, a Vertical axle in said tower supportingsaid roof, means for rotating said roof and therefore said airships inthe opposite direction to that in which said flying machines arerotated, a

platform at the upper end of said tower adapted to afford access to saidairships, and a staircase in the interior of said tower leading,r tosaid platform.r

In testimony whereof I afix my signature.

KARL PRNNECKE.

